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Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-03-07
HOW BEECHER WAS STRICKEN

NEW YORK, March q The attack OF
hae' pl.1y came suddenly. On Thurs
day light Mr.. Beecher was apparently
IN good health He play ed O gam OF
tsckgamrnon with kis wife AL d retired
tAfiy. He was restless and during The
ieht Mrs. Be, cher heard him ercan
ips. At 4 80 he was very sick aud
'vamited freely. He had eaten sjme
roast CLAIMS for supper, end Mrs. Bee che 7
eonsldered Ii an attack Of billion 0 ese,
tno Ehen he went TO sleep she did no,
9,turh Lin, thinking that hs would be
al right when he awoke.
ba5 The hours ao-s on and still he
sep. In the aiiegnoon she began to
worry add aent foT the family physi.
caH, DIR w. 6. Ssarls. He reached the
eopse tt 3 80 on Friday aftsrnoou. He
aroused Mr. B8echer aud concluded
elat he was suffering frcrn stroke OF
iHopleXg. The fl nily could hardly be-
,-SFA Il
"ab had half cczen roast clans for
y GER" said his wife, "and that, With
~ attack OF biliousoess, Is all that ia
iati1g him."
TdI LEFT SIDE PARALYzED,
The doctor returned to the house a. s
O'CLOCK Friday evening. Said be:
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-03-07
A CHANGE FOR THE WORSE

Shortly bt fore o'clocT hlordan no.
ticed sudden change In Mr.. Beechs!'s
condition. Tho synptcms were 30 ap
parent that tho family were called.
When they arrived ct the bedside Of
the dying man they thought the time
had come when bis long, bright career
was To be brought TO q close a,.d hie
sufferiDgs ended.
a 4.30 another change took piece, this
time more favorable to the patient aud
he rallied 40 much that the family
thought 1t safe to retire, leaving The
nurse In charge.
AT 10 O'Clock Mr.. Beecher b ad re
lapse and again the family was su.n
monsd to his eide Hls condition wal
noa 70 alarming that Maj 7 j. 3. Po
lamIed into carriage and drove tt
New York after Dr. Hammond. Th.
doctor could not go just then and etAed
DIR. Todd Helmuth TO so IN his stead
an! wait at the housu for him. DR.
Helmuth readily assented and return I'd
with Major Pond.
at 2 10 DR.. Hammond arrived aud
consulted wi h Drs Soarie ard Hel
ndith. Tho result Of this consultation
Az tod by tho bulleiin, was that MIR
| attcher WAS in a state Of deep coma
! vita 10 sisns Of pain OF CONSCIOUSNESS,
OF aug sort. Death was consid cred Ger.
tan
| DR.. Gearle, who came out OF tht
honse bhont o'clccS in company with
Ear baruingLam, friend of tho tsmi
~, Informed the r,porters that the n
was 10 rossibls hope Of Mr.. Beecher't
recovery. He was in o comatose state
tie said that death might occur at cry
moment. and again 1t might bo within
lew hours. He eaid that Mr. Beechel
tcould not take nuurishmeut.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-03-07
NH. BEECnER DYING.

the rtroke Of ApopIsxy PronoDnced to
be Q Fatal Ons-scsnss is the Sick
Room - Piymoath Congregation In
Tears.
NEW YORK, March 6-aenry Ward
Beeoher 10 dying.
The unexpected stroke Of apoplexy oi
Thursday night carried fatality with
IL. There WAS . faint hops yesterday
that ifs might DO spared, although the
fam Qua preacher might never enter the
nuitit .zAln, bu; that hope Was soon
abandoned. Mr. Beechtr was gsAdu.
siIy but sursly sinking all night The
first bulletin OF this morning, Issued al
O'clock, noted no particular change,
and the immense crowd in the street
be,oro the door OF the Beecher resideno
AZ Ain took heart But It was heeting
I,,tsr bulletins told OF hts utterly hope
lesv condition, and DR.. Ssarle, the fam
i.y ply ytician, gave out the situation IL
II ese words:
"There Is no possible hope"
HIS EXACT CONDITION.
This evening the following bulletin
sisI ed by W. y. 6earle. was Issued
giving Mr.. Beecher's exact condition:
the condition Of Mr.. Beeoher has not
materially changed during tie day
He is In q deeply comatose state FROM
whioh he will never probably rally
he lies greatly like one In deeoes
sleep ard gives DO indications OF pair
or uneasiness. His pulse varies fron
lg0 TO 100 At one time for severa
hours II inter mitted two or three besil
ia each minute, but this evening It. hal
remaiDed Qnite regular and quite hare
and full The temperature aas ranged
from 100 to 1907. Tue re,piratlonl
numb Der about thirty TO the minute.
The body and ex,remities are equally
warm. The fAos IL flushed ana has 4
some What livid hue. He Is unable t.
speak or swallow any thing except smal
Quantities OF liquid, which must be eau
/ onsly sdministered TO prevent chok
|ina. During the day Re has been under
tno constant super vision of his physi
cians who rem ain with him to. night,
Dr.. W. I. Hellwsrth and and DR. W,
A Hamu ond Of New York city have
zach visited him once TO day. All thIet
medic ad viseIs are In full and entire
concord as ~ the nature and location ol
,he disease, its present status, the rene
dial measures to be employed and as 10
the prognosis of the case.
II is their opiaion that the history ol
to day confirms the op,n ions they have
eI tertained from the besinnins. that
reoovery iB Lot TO be hoped fori thai
though the efi uslen OF blood iuto the
brain lie now stopped fresh hemorrh
age may at any time occur and speedily
md lite; that Is not likely to happen 30
'ar ~ present Indications are to be
trusted, and should 1t not occur his
ite may be sia:ed yet several days
Il ow long depends on his endurance
ana strength OF constitution. Drs
u hammond and HellweIth will not re-
,u'n for consultation unless ser for, d,
hey have Expressed thcmselves at
.eeming 1t unnoce, sary. No one excep,
irs. Beeeher and her children are allow
"a u visit his bedside. No further
Lu.lein will be issued uLtil Monday
A1.r ing.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-03-07
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ID Years

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hurk heat
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-09-02
His Flyship on a Spree.

The bartender said: "a roach is a
happy, harmless drunkard, but liquor
makes fly quarrelsome." At that in
stance big house fly fell into a glass
of champagne that one of the specta-
tors of the roach's debauch was pre-
pairing to drink. The fly was rescued
from the wine and laid on the counter.
He appeared at first to be dead, but he
finally revived, struggled to his feet
and tried to walk away. One of the
spectators thrust his finger before the
fy's head, but his fyship paid no heed
to the act. He walked about in a cir
Gle and staggered like topper. Occas
ionally the legs on one side of his body
would give out and he would fall over
on his back, wearily wave his legs il
the air and then lie motionless and su
premely contented. A magnifyipl
glass was produced and view of tn
| fly's countenance showed that his eye
were CLASSY and his expression IDIOT
as compared with that of the temperat
fly. When the wine had begun t
fully assert its power the fly struggle
to his feet and proceeded to vindicat
the bartender's estimate of him. III
reeled along the counter until he met
sober fly that was making towards
cube of loaf sugar The topper darte
towards the temperate fly and attacke
him with malice aforethought I'll
temperate fly tried in vain to escap
Then he turned on his assailant, role
him oyer on his back and left him vii
l his legs in the air.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-09-02
The President aud His Family.

One of the most interesting traits in
the character of the President of the
United States is the simplicity of his
life and habits. His prosperity has
done nothing to impair his plain and
old-fashioned methods of living. No
false personal pride and no constrained
notions of the dignity of his Office have
made him stilted or offensive in the
transaction OF the public business or in
his intercourse with the people. Yet,
with all his simplicity of bearing, no
man who has ever occupied the Presi-
dental Office has been more careful to
preserve its real dignity and TO make
himself an object of respect to his fell
low citizens.
There is something in the quiet and
unostentatious ways of the President
that tho American people like and ad-
mire. Heretofore they have seen so
much pompousness and sumptuousness
in life at the White House that it is
refreshing to them to behold a citizen
there who does not forget that he Is
one of the people and whose family OBJ
serve the same Democratic notion; no
scandals, no tales of extravaganza, NO
vulgar habits of social life have been
associated with this administration, as
they so often have been with its prede
essors. On the contrary it has set a
good example to the whole American
people, and the influence of the White
House will have wholesome effect on
the lives of thousands of men and WON
en- in the United States.
What we particularly like about
President Cleveland is that he loes moi
have around him any parasites ol
idlers.
Not only this, but we observe in tn,
Presidents kinsmen the same robus
sense and plain ways which character
ize him. They do not hang arounc
the white House and thrust themselve
before the public and beg for office a
the relatives of Grant, Hayes and Gar
field did. Miss Rose Cleveland, tn
Presidents sister and a woman of ex
ceptional ability, is quietly earning he
living as school teacher. The Presi
dents brother, William N. Cleveland
is modest clergyman in New Yorl
town whom most people never heard O
outside of the community in which hi
work as minister of the gospel is re
spected. All through the Clevelan
stock runs this spirit of modes.y, indt
pendence and true Democratic simplici
ty and it is pleasing sight for Amer
cans to contemplate in these days whe
pnblio men and their relatives usual
cut up such fantastic tricks before hig
heaven when they are dressed in
little brief authority-Chester Dem,
! crat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-09-02
Willie Gives Away the Old Man.

From the Nebraska State Journal
"Mother," said the fye-year-old de-
mon just as Mrs. Oldboy was prepar-
ing to leave home on a six weeks visit,
"what's become of the fur you used TO
wear last Winter T.
"Iocked up, Willie, why =
"Say, has wings growed on ii
"Noi why do you ask such silly
questions =
"'Cause ] heard pop say this moru-
ing he would make the fur fly while
you are away"
The trunks were at once unpaeked
and the look that came into Mrs. Old
boys face made the clock strike 81.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-09-02
Prayer and Business.
HOW REAL ESTATE DEALS ARE CARRIED
ON IN DAKOTA sANCTUARIEs.

On Wednesday evening, about two
months ago, prayer meeting was held
by the members of one OF the leading
churches in Aberdeen, this Territory.
Owing to some repairs beng made in
the church building, it took place at
the residence of a prominent member
of the church, named Dawson, who
was also leading real estate dealer.
The city was at that time in the height
of boom.
Rev. Bagley had charge of the meet
ing, and, after nu mber of those pres
ent had offered prayers tho reverend
gentleman called on Brother Dawson.
He accordingly knelt by chair, and,
after fitting introduction, said:
sand we desire to further thank
Thee this evening for allowing me to
put my new north side addition upon
"Hold on, brother, hold on" inter.
rupted Rev. Bagley. at hardly seems
to me proper for you to introduce pri-
yate real estate deals in a supplication
at church prayer meeting. Don't
do it Brother Dawson"
But Brother Dawson was of stub
born disposition and this only made
him more determined. He continued:
"As l was saying, l desire to return
thanks for thy providential guidance
while placing my north side addition
on the market. As Thou probably
knowest l have thrown the entire ad
dition on the market at $3.50 per lot,
though they are all we'll worth"
slows that, brOther7" put in Rev.
Bagley, eagerly, as he took his face
out of his hands and peered sideways
over his spectacles from where he was
kneeling in front of tho sofa.
"Four hundred and fifty dollars @
lot, elder" answered Brother Dawson
"Good gracious!" replied the minis
ter, as he arose, "there's money in those
lots at that figure. Just me down fol
for block of about six. I'm willing to
put my pile in north side dirt at tha
rate at any time. Here, Sister Daw
son, bring us pen minute till ",
draw up the deed. / don't pretend t
take any chances on monkey business
on as good deal as this. just re
main kneeling, friends, this matte
wont take but moments time
Dakota Bel.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-09-02

NEVER BEEN DISAPPOINTED.
AS general family remedy for dyspepsia, torpid
liver, constipation, elc,I hardly ever use anything
duced; 1t seems to be almost perfect cure for all
diseases Of the stomach and bowels.
w. j. MCELRoY, Macon, Ca
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-09-02

If man is faithful to truth, truth
will be faithful TO him. He need have
no fears. His success is question of
time.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-09-02
H0W'S
YOUR LIVER /?

Is the oriental salutation,
knowing that good health
cannot exist without a
healthy liver. When the
liver is torpid the bowels
are sluggish and constipa-
ted, the food lies in the
stomach undigested, pois-
oning the blood; frequent
headache ensues; a feeling
of lassitude, dependency
and nervousness indicate
how the whole system is
deranged. Simmons Liver
Regulator has been the
means of restoring more
people to health and hap
piness by giving them a
healthy liver than any
agency known on earth.
1t acts with extraordi-
nary power and efficacy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-20

Reception Given in New York to Introduce
Her to the Literary People.

Reception Given in New York to Introduce
Her to the Literary People.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The author of those remarkable romances of
mountain life in Tennessee, Charles Egbers
Craddock. whose real name is Mary Murfree, is
now in New York. She is q little lame woman
of about thirty five, with curling brown hair,
the pallid skin of invalid. pair of keen
brown eyes. 1t seems almost impossible to
credit this small pale woman with these mas
cuine, vigorous romances that bear her name
1t is said that when Aldrich. who had known her
only through letters. told that Craddock
wanted to see him and found this lame girl, he
those who are aware OF the identity
aghast at the effort reconcile her
fragile appearance with the intimate knowledge
she displays of every phase of the mountainous
existence, and in her later work her familiarity
with law and politics. large reception
held few nights since to introduce her to the
New York public which she hardly knows yet
and everyone of any celebrity in town was there
That is all who left for lot of the literators
as well as the fashionables, have begun their
fitting for the heated term. The rooms
full. however and the sofa which the little
writer sat surrounded by a crowd four
five deep. all trying to have a word with her.
This exhibition of lions is conducted here on
rather absurd plan. The lion has dis
tinctly unpleasant time of it. He is stood up
in q corner, 200 or 300 people come and shake
hands and murmur some indistinct civility. and
are crowded away by the pressure from behind.
The unhappy celebrity has no chance for a word
of reasonable conversation with anyone, the
crowd. and he takes home with him pothing
but an infinite fatigue and dazzle of faces.
went to reception last winter to meet Stanley
"Africanus:" took my place in the line at 2.
NJ, and at 4:45 my hostess said. ''Mr. Stanley,
Mr.. D." We shook hands. the woman in
front of me trod on my toes, the two men be-
hind me pushed me out of the way, and
my only impressions of the African ex-
plorer is hasty glimpse of a small
man whose tired face flushed with the
heat his hair rumpled and his cravat under one
Miss Murfree had a better time of IT, be-
cause she was lame. and. therefore, seated and
not nearly SO many cards were issued as the
former occasion. yet no one had chance to say
a dozen words to her, and before the evening was
done she was simply a tired little heap, smiling
pathetieally up at the spectators. She will stay
here few days, | believe, and then she returns
to St. Louis. her present home. People have
been making much of her in Boston, where she
whisked about to luncheons, dinners and
breakfasts until she did not know whether she
sitting down on her head or her heels. Like
most literary women, Miss Murfree dresses i'll.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-20

About the year 1875 company of Eastern
capitalists conceived the idea of building up
inland city upon the site of the home of Abra-
ham Lincoln, relying upon the prestige of the
martyred President and the interest that would
naturally attach to his former home. to attract a
population. About four hundred acres of lard
purchased at $40 acre; imaginary city
was laid off, opera houses, colleges, churches
were shown in the illustrations artificial lake
was constructed and on its silvery waters were
represented steamboats,. sail boats and other
pleasure crafts; sites for magnificent structures
were marked. streets, squares, parks foun tans
and palatial public buildings were erected on pa
per- profusely illust rated by photographic art
and circulars scattered broadcast over the land
inviting people to locate ia this MAGNIFICENT in
land paradise. this miniature Eden. Exorbitant
prices were charged for lots and high fictitious
values placed upon all property there. Many
people were lured to this embryo city, but they
did not tarry long; they folded their tents, and,
like the Arab, silently stole away.
The speculation failed. the boom fell fat the
cottages we're abandoned the lots sold for taxes.
the miniature lake degenerated to insgnfi-
cant frog pond, the abode of turtles snakes and
tadpoles. 1t now represents the appearance OF
deserted village.
The company still owns the principal part of
the original purchase. and two years ago offered
to sell the whole tract at SIS per acre. The late
prospect of getting another railroad has In
creased the value of these lands to some extent,
and in case the proposed Cannelton & Tell City
branch of the Airline is built to this point Lin
coin City will at take vigorous second
growth, and would soon become an important
point for transfer and shipment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-20
Remedy for an Unpleasant Ailment.


There several remedies for perspiration of
the feet, and here are some of them: Apply with
sponge without rubbing a solution of thirty
grains each of burnt alum and boric acid in one
ounce of rose water just soon as the shoes and
stockings are removed. Repeat every two or
three days in the evening. A pharmacist, who
regards the difficulty as due to fermentation
caused by the paste used by shoemakers for fast
ening insoles into shoes, directs powder, con
sisting of about equal parts of boric and salicyic
acids, to be sprinkled in the shoes and
told the trouble ceases. Another pharmacist,
who has devoted considerable attention to
the difficulty in question, highly recommends
the application of mixture OF one part
of the oleate OF zinc with ten parts of starch.
Viensse has made some careful observations
concerning this distressing infirmity. He alleges
that the condition may be entirely and perma-
nently cured by rubbing into the feet finely
powdered subnitrate of bismuth. The action Of
the drug seems to be purely local. 1t toughens
the skin, and at the same time probably modifies
the character and amount OF perspratlon by
affecting the glands. 1t is possible. the writer
adds, that bismuth has some influence upon the
capillary circulation of the parts. There are
some in which the excessive perspiration
tinues in spite Of the treatment but even then
bismuth deErives the perspiration OF it's foetic
door and relieves the tenderness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-20

How the Rich Corporation Cares for the Pos
Within the Wards of Its Parish.

How the Rich Corporation Cares for the Poor
Within the Wards of Its Parish.
New York Mail and Express.
Few people know to what extent old Trinity
cares for the poor of these lower wards said q
Greenwich street potato dealer.
How do you know7 You don't live in the
city. do your
''No, don't live here. but in New Jersey. But
do business here, and great many people
come to merchants in the course of year
We always have potatoes. and it is handy to give
them, and they handy for them to have in
the house. But that don't keep them, and
nearly all of them tell of Trinity Church help
ing them
How does she help them!
"Well there's poor woman that comes here
occasionally. and give her some potatoes. She
is a worthy woman with large family, and
works all she / have investigated her case
and know what / say is true. She tells me that
Trinity cares for her nobly, and that If it wasn't
for that old CHI urch she would have to GO to the
poor house Others tell me the thing"
'Well, there some church influence and
church work down in these lower wards, after
all. isn't therei"
THAT there is And those people know just
what they are doing, too They sift out tn
impostors in time, but the worthy poor al
ways sure of good treatment at the hands of old
Trinitys people tell you old Trinity. old st.
Pauls and old st. Johns do world of good in
the wards where all the other churches. except
St Peters, on Barclay street, have lost their
foothold."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-20

play where A. J. has rescued young woman
and taken her to his cabin, where she has been
for three or four weeks waiting for her parents
to come on from Atchison. noticed that she and
Joe had, In the confusion attendant on the rescue
and preservation. traded neckties with each
other but / do not think that should be used
against them.
Four dogs a pearl-gray jackass and hollow
stump also take part in the play. At one point
dog comes in bringing a birthmark in his
mouth when Arizona Joe at once Jumps at the
conclusion that there Is some human being near
by. Long life on the border has taught him
that q brthmark is one of the very best evidences
that some is not far away. So with quick,
Waterbury movement he dashes out and finds
covey of people who are crossing the plains
without his consent. He kills them, changes his
necktie that he will not be recognized, and
goes home by a circuitous route. Along ut this
point in the play, a variety Irishman and an i'm
possible negro come out and sing n topical song
of the time of Queene Anne. The song is not
so bad as L have heard, but it was difficult to
Judge it, as the people who were going out at
the time drowned the music with their heavy
footprints
Looking at Arizona Joe last evening in his
strange wild beauty, one could hardly help from
admiring him, for with all his poverty, beauty,
and temptation to lead a life of shame he does
not yield, but goes braveiy on earning q precar-
ious livelihood by killing disagreeable people
with whom he comes in contact. He never MUIR
murs over his lot, and no ear ever hears him
complain unless it be the frontier.
AS a Mexican hairless hun1orist he would not
succeed, but in his great role as q preserver OF
stage coaches, he does well. / would suggest to
any one contemplating trip across New Mexico
or Arizona by Tantivy coach, that they cannot
get their rescuing done with less delay annoy
ance than by giving their orders to Arizona joe
The costumes used in this play mostly of
the present century, and quito realistic,
though the whiskers used by some OF old Cauli-
flowers band are not good fit for those who
wear them. One man especially wears n beard
which too tight for him, and pulls his ears
down too low. besides saving across the under
side of his nose, and giving his voice rich nasal
twang stage beard in hot weather should
also have a hole cut in it for the mouth, not only
to give it tnge of realism, but in order to at
ford air to the who wears it.
Without wishing to criticse the play, would
saw that it would be more realistic with less
conversation and more whisky. and if the author
had put less death in it. it would have been
more lifelike. BILL NYE.